Orphan Number: 4882

Orphan:	Charles SHAW
Mother:	HARRIGAN, Julia
Father:	SHAW, Arthur
Mother's ship:	Bangalore
Father's ship:
Age when admitted:	9yrs 9mths
Date admitted:	1 Apr 1861
Date discharged:	3 Aug 1865, 5 Oct 1866
Institutions(s):	Queens Orphan School
Discharged to:	Patrick Beirne, Proctors Rd, Timothy McAuliffe, Tunnack
Remarks:	won 2nd prize Class 2, secular education 1862 - father, pensioner 69th Regiment, dead - mother free, McAuliffe neglected boy - hadn'e washed for 42 days, no meat for 4mths
References:	SWD26/4, 28, 32/1, CSD25/18/1568

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Claimed by John Long. You can send a message to John Long by email here

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Margaret Wilkinson wrote:

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John Long wrote:

Charles was Great Grand uncle, very interested to known anything of his life.

John

Sydney

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Ian Burns wrote:

Charles and his brother Arthur were born in Tasmania to Pensioner Guard Arthur Shaw 1808 to 1860 from Cloon County Leitrum Ireland and Julian Horrigan from County Cork Ireland.

Charles died 30 Sept 1876 in Hobart General Hospital from Pulmonary Tuberculoisi and was buried in a paupers grave at Cornelian Bay Cemetery on the 4 October 1876.

His mother had to give Charles and Arthur up to the orphanage after the death of their father.

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